Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 79
Rank change year-on-year -31 +15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,905 1,956 3,080
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 3.98% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 4.41% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 984 2,251
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,027 £58,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 1,671 £75,000 +3.45% 929
UK excluding London -50 1,015 £65,000 -7.14% 796
Work from Home -19 866 £65,000 -7.14% 781
London -15 748 £85,000 +3.03% 341
North of England -38 362 £69,310 -3.72% 210
South East -6 266 £65,000 -7.14% 194
North West -52 198 £75,000 +7.14% 100
South West -48 113 £55,000 -19.74% 75
Midlands -62 96 £65,000 -3.70% 112
North East +12 84 £65,000 +18.18% 32
Yorkshire -25 80 £62,500 -13.49% 78
West Midlands -41 69 £77,500 +10.71% 59
Wales -18 51 £70,000 +34.62% 46
Northern Ireland -16 49 £62,500 +25.00% 37
East of England -23 48 £60,100 -3.84% 64
Scotland -58 32 £60,000 -22.58% 73
East Midlands -61 26 £64,000 +6.67% 53
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (1.78%) Confluence
2 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.89%) CMS
3 17 (0.89%) IIS
4 15 (0.79%) Apache
5 9 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.47%) Camunda
5 9 (0.47%) JBoss
6 8 (0.42%) WordPress
7 7 (0.37%) nginx
7 7 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.26%) Drupal
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.16%) DNN
10 3 (0.16%) Kentico
10 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.10%) Shopify
7 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 991 (52.02%) AWS
2 821 (43.10%) Azure
3 336 (17.64%) GCP
4 270 (14.17%) Serverless
5 226 (11.86%) GitHub
6 184 (9.66%) SaaS
7 163 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
9 117 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (5.72%) Amazon S3
11 102 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 95 (4.99%) GitHub Copilot
13 89 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 80 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (3.46%) Azure AKS
17 63 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
18 61 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
19 52 (2.73%) PaaS
20 48 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.36%) Broadband
2 24 (1.26%) Network Security
3 15 (0.79%) MQTT
4 13 (0.68%) DMARC
5 11 (0.58%) DNS
6 10 (0.52%) AMQP
7 8 (0.42%) Firewall
7 8 (0.42%) Internet
7 8 (0.42%) VPN
8 7 (0.37%) DHCP
8 7 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.31%) RFID
9 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.26%) HTTP
11 4 (0.21%) LTE
12 3 (0.16%) Modbus
13 1 (0.052%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.052%) PSTN
13 1 (0.052%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (15.70%) MongoDB
2 214 (11.23%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (10.60%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.35%) Elasticsearch
6 124 (6.51%) MySQL
7 99 (5.20%) SQL Server
8 88 (4.62%) Relational Database
9 61 (3.20%) Redis
10 52 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.68%) Big Data
13 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.63%) Db2
15 12 (0.63%) DTS
16 10 (0.52%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.52%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 227 (11.92%) Git
2 183 (9.61%) GitLab
3 151 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.15%) TeamCity
5 58 (3.04%) JIRA
6 52 (2.73%) JUnit
7 43 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.68%) Claude Code
9 31 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 31 (1.63%) Mockito
10 26 (1.36%) Maven
11 24 (1.26%) CircleCI
12 19 (1.00%) Selenium
13 18 (0.94%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (0.68%) JMeter
16 12 (0.63%) Postman
16 12 (0.63%) Spock
16 12 (0.63%) Vite
17 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 456 (23.94%) Finance
2 329 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 186 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 161 (8.45%) Banking
5 117 (6.14%) Retail
6 116 (6.09%) Law
7 106 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 101 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
9 62 (3.25%) Legal
10 58 (3.04%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.68%) Back Office
12 32 (1.68%) Marketing
13 28 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.47%) Legal Technology
14 23 (1.21%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.00%) Advertising
17 18 (0.94%) Games
18 16 (0.84%) Billing
19 14 (0.73%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 717 (37.64%) Developer
2 453 (23.78%) Senior
3 350 (18.37%) Software Engineer
4 282 (14.80%) Lead
5 258 (13.54%) Architect
6 203 (10.66%) .NET Developer
7 162 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 147 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 146 (7.66%) Java Developer
10 130 (6.82%) Java Engineer
11 109 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 106 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 94 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
15 79 (4.15%) Software Developer
16 72 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
17 68 (3.57%) Lead Developer
18 56 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
19 54 (2.83%) Technical Leader
20 52 (2.73%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (27.09%) .NET
2 418 (21.94%) Node.js
3 414 (21.73%) React
4 315 (16.54%) Spring
5 294 (15.43%) Spring Boot
6 273 (14.33%) RESTful
7 247 (12.97%) REST
8 228 (11.97%) ASP.NET
8 228 (11.97%) Kafka
9 213 (11.18%) .NET Core
10 203 (10.66%) AngularJS
11 199 (10.45%) Vue
12 189 (9.92%) ASP.NET Core
13 108 (5.67%) ASP.NET Web API
14 103 (5.41%) Blazor
15 101 (5.30%) .NET Framework
16 91 (4.78%) HTML
17 85 (4.46%) CSS
18 82 (4.30%) gRPC
19 73 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 574 (30.13%) Cloud Native
2 324 (17.01%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.36%) Over-the-Top Content
10 41 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.57%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.42%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
16 23 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (1.05%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 119 (6.25%) Linux
2 46 (2.41%) Windows
3 20 (1.05%) Unix
4 18 (0.94%) CentOS
4 18 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.31%) Debian
5 6 (0.31%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
7 1 (0.052%) Android
7 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.052%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 985 (51.71%) CI/CD
2 894 (46.93%) Agile
3 679 (35.64%) Software Engineering
4 676 (35.49%) DevOps
5 540 (28.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 436 (22.89%) Mentoring
7 422 (22.15%) Containerisation
8 392 (20.58%) Test Automation
9 389 (20.42%) Event-Driven
10 382 (20.05%) AI
11 374 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 363 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 343 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
14 272 (14.28%) Scrum
15 246 (12.91%) Technical Leadership
16 242 (12.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 233 (12.23%) TDD
18 210 (11.02%) Clean Code
18 210 (11.02%) Coaching
19 199 (10.45%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 622 (32.65%) Java
2 518 (27.19%) C#
3 482 (25.30%) SQL
4 459 (24.09%) Python
5 432 (22.68%) JavaScript
6 349 (18.32%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.25%) Go
8 52 (2.73%) Scala
9 47 (2.47%) Ruby
10 45 (2.36%) C++
11 43 (2.26%) PHP
12 40 (2.10%) Bash
13 27 (1.42%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.31%) Bicep
14 25 (1.31%) Rust
15 23 (1.21%) C
16 14 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.63%) Groovy
19 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 242 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 173 (9.08%) Degree
3 162 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.21%) CISSP
9 20 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.52%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.47%) PhD
14 8 (0.42%) CISM
14 8 (0.42%) MBA
15 5 (0.26%) GIAC
15 5 (0.26%) ISACA
15 5 (0.26%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.61%) QA
2 65 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.20%) GDPR
4 39 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.47%) WCAG
6 24 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.15%) NIST
9 18 (0.94%) NCSC
10 15 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.31%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 544 (28.56%) Docker
2 22 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 579 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 348 (18.27%) Terraform
3 111 (5.83%) Ansible
4 102 (5.35%) Grafana
5 60 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.26%) Argo
7 20 (1.05%) Puppet
8 17 (0.89%) Kibana
9 13 (0.68%) Cilium
10 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
14 3 (0.16%) Rancher
15 2 (0.10%) Istio
15 2 (0.10%) MIIS
15 2 (0.10%) Nagios
15 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
16 1 (0.052%) logstash
Vendors
1 301 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.46%) Google
3 58 (3.04%) Oracle
4 45 (2.36%) Typelevel
5 36 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 30 (1.57%) Splunk
7 26 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.10%) IBM
9 20 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.89%) Databricks
11 14 (0.73%) Red Hat
12 13 (0.68%) Adobe
12 13 (0.68%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.63%) OneLogin
14 11 (0.58%) Salesforce
15 10 (0.52%) SAP
15 10 (0.52%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
17 7 (0.37%) Guidewire
17 7 (0.37%) HubSpot